api-compat-review

api-compat-review is a skill for Claude Code from jpicklyk/task-orchestrator. It costs 49 tokens per session (554 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A compatibility review for changes to an MCP tool interface and a REST API. Compatibility means checking whether existing clients can continue to use the changed interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess renamed parameters, changed schemas, tool definitions, REST routes, data fields, OpenAPI documentation, and updates needed by callers such as skills and hooks.
Why use it?
MCP clients discover tools again, while REST clients often rely on fixed endpoints and fields, so the two interfaces need different checks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/api-compat-review
Any agent
npx skills add jpicklyk/task-orchestrator --skill api-compat-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 554 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00049 $0.00554
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00277
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00055

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5f594ea5bac6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

api-compat-review scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/api-compat-review/SKILL.md · 38 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 38 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

API Compatibility Review Framework

Assess API changes by surface — the MCP tool surface (dynamically re-discovered by clients) and the REST surface (hardcoded clients) have different compatibility models. Do not apply REST-style breaking-change caution to MCP tools, and do not apply MCP's rename-friendliness to REST.

Step 1: Classify the Change

Determine which surface(s) the change touches:

  • MCP toolsapplication/tools/ tool definitions, parameterSchema, tool description strings
  • REST APIinterfaces/api/v1/routes/, interfaces/api/v1/dto/Dtos.kt, openapi.yaml

A single change (e.g., a domain model field rename) can touch both surfaces independently — assess each.

Step 2: MCP Surface Assessment

LLM clients re-read the tools/list schema every session — there is no persistent client binding to break. A pure parameter rename does NOT require keeping the old name working. Verify instead:

  • Every changed param's parameterSchema key and its arg-parsing read site stay in sync — no schema-says-X/code-reads-Y drift
  • ALL first-party callers update in lockstep: plugin skills, hooks, output styles, auto-memory references, and api-reference.md. This doc coordination is the real cost of an MCP change, not client breakage.
  • The tool description string accurately reflects the new behavior

Step 3: REST Surface Assessment

HTTP clients hardcode field and param names, so compatibility DOES matter here:

  • Response-shape changes are additive (new fields only) where possible
  • Renames or removals of existing fields/params have an explicit migration path or version bump — not a silent break
  • Note when a surface has effectively zero consumers (e.g., a days-old endpoint) so the reviewer can right-size caution instead of over-indexing on hypothetical clients
  • openapi.yaml is updated for any REST-facing change
  • api-rest.md is updated for any REST-facing change

Output

Compose the api-compatibility note with findings from Step 2 and/or Step 3, scoped to whichever surface(s) the change actually touches. If a surface wasn't touched, say so explicitly rather than omitting it silently.

Read the full file on GitHub · 38 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 38 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 5f594ea5bac6

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api-compat-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpicklyk/task-orchestrator (206 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 554 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.